Fall 2016: Core Principles

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when do we know if an entity is a state or not?Most IR issues revolve around ONE key problem: Collective goods problem

The problem of how to provide something that benefits all members of a group regardless of what each member contributes to it => examples? Today's Agenda:What is IR really about? Core Concepts of the disciplineCGP and SolutionsLevels of AnalysisActors: The State The evolution of the international systemclass exercise 1class exercise 2Core principles for solving the collective good problemIR analysis: explaining the "why" questionThe evolution of the IS system: Between conflict and cooperationNation state system developed after the 30-years' wars in Europe => Peace of Westphalia (1648) => development of sovereign states what is Sovereignty? what does it mean to be sovereign?

New era - post WWII - The UN system

The cold war era (1945-1990)

Post CW era (1990-2001)

Post 9/11 era - currentActors in the International SystemExample: Problem of global warning. Solving it can only be achieved by many countries acting togetherBreakThe Study of IR: between Cooperation and Conflict Solutions? EX: Why did the war in Iraq in 2003 erupt?

Global Level: Affects all actors in the systemInterstate level: the interactions between states Domestic level: types of regimes, institutions wihin a country, bureaucracies Individual level: psychology of decision makers, individual decision making process [BREAK] Categorize the following issues as explanations relating to the global level of analysis, interstate level of analysis, domestic level of analysis and individual level of analysis:Public opinion

UN

Wars

Information Revolution

Crazy Leaders

Dictatorship

Diplomacy

Terrorism

NATO

Citizen’s participation (ex: voting)

Ethnic conflict

Leader’s decision making in crises

Foreign policy bureacracies Levels of Analysis: Individual - how do individuals behave? what is their psychological make up? Domestic - what is the nature of the regime? Interstate - what is the relations between states? Global - indiscriminate effects of global actors - affects multiple states regardless of leader and regimeHow can a group (such as two or more nations) serve its collective interests when doing so requires its members to forgo their individual interests? (Goldstein book pp. 3)